DriveByView only works if everyone on the street can trust it — the people who subscribe, the neighbors who don't, and the drivers who pass through. So privacy isn't a settings page here. It's the architecture. This page explains exactly how, in plain language.
License plates and people's faces are blurred by an AI redaction pipeline as footage comes in — before a single frame reaches a report, a clip, or a screen. Everything in the product is the redacted version, including your own report. You see your home the way the street sees it; you don't see your neighbor's plate or the jogger's face. Nobody browsing the product does. Original footage is sealed in restricted long-term storage — never part of the product, never browsable, and touched only under narrow, logged circumstances such as a verified request from you.
Redaction is not optional and can't be turned off — not by subscribers, not by partners, not by us in normal operation.
There is no feed. Nothing is browsable, and nothing is broadcast — this is the opposite of street-view mapping, where everyone's street is published to everyone. Here, the only person who can ever see your address is you. The default product is a written report about your own home — and everything beyond that exists only behind a request from you.
The trust anchor is address verification: before anyone sees anything for an address, we confirm their billing address matches the address that appears in the street view. If you can't prove you live (or pay the bills) at 1427 Alder Crescent, you don't see 1427 Alder Crescent. Every additional address needs its own verification.
Simple: if an address doesn't subscribe, it isn't part of the product. A subscription is what switches a video zone on — passes are sliced, annotated, and reported only for subscribed properties. Footage outside a subscribed video zone is never processed into anything viewable and isn't available to anyone — not to subscribers next door, not to partners, not to staff. Each subscriber sees only their own video zone, and nothing past its edges.
That's your call, and it should be easy. Enter your address below and we'll exclude it entirely: your video zone is deleted immediately and your address is skipped in every future pass. No account needed, no reason required, no pressure to reconsider.
One-time confirmation only — we keep the address on the exclusion list and nothing else.
Capture partners are local businesses and community members driving routes they already run. The system is built so a driver can never become — or even be mistaken for — someone keeping an eye on a particular home:
Short answer: as little as the product needs, and less than you'd guess. Here's the whole policy in one table:
| What | How long we keep it |
|---|---|
| Annotated report stills the frames in your reports |
12 months, then deleted |
| Pass video clips the short clips from each drive-by |
90 days, unless you save one to your report |
| Requested full recordings prepared only when you ask |
30 days after delivery to you, then deleted |
| Original (un-redacted) footage sealed after redaction |
90 days in restricted long-term storage, then deleted — never in the product; access is narrow, logged, and audited |
| Opt-out addresses neighbors who've excluded their home |
Zone deleted immediately; address excluded from all future passes |
These are illustrative policy targets for the prototype — final retention windows will be confirmed and published before launch, and will only get shorter, not longer, without notice to you.
Then the next step is easy — see if partners already drive your neighborhood.
Check my street